National Food Systems Expert

2 weeks ago

New Delhi, India FAO Full time

2300695

National Food Systems Expert

Job Posting: 07/Mar/2023

Closure Date: 21/Mar/2023, 5:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: FAIND

**Job Type**: Non-staff opportunities

Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)

Grade Level: N/A

Primary Location: India-New Delhi

Duration: One year (renewable)

Post Number: N/A
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**Organizational Setting**

FAO is a partner agency of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to address the world’s most challenging environmental issues related to biodiversity, climate change, land degradation, chemicals, and international waters. GEF provides grants to countries to meet these challenges whilst contributing to key development goals, such as food security.

In this context, FAO India is currently initiating the implementation of the “Transforming Indian agriculture for global environmental benefits and the conservation of critical biodiversity and forest landscapes” Project under the GEF -7 cycle. This five-year project will focus on four states (Punjab, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Odisha). The project will: 1) result in major global environmental benefits in terms of reduced land degradation, biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas emissions; 2) provide the country with win-win benefits in terms of improvements in the environmental sustainability of food systems and the income and resilience of farmers, and; 3) generate additional benefits for other food system stakeholders such as improved access to safe and healthy food and to employment opportunities.

**Reporting Lines**

Under the direct supervision of the FAO Representative in India (FAOR), technical guidance of the Lead Technical Officer, FAO, and in regular consultation with the GEF Division, the National Technical Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating technical and service inputs of National Project Management Unit (NPMU) Core Team of National Experts and Short Term Experts. The National Technical Coordinator will undertake the following duties

**Technical Focus**

Coordinating technical and service inputs of National Project Management Unit (NPMU) Core Team of National Experts and Short Term Experts.

**Tasks and responsibilities**
- Lead the project to effectively address various issues within the different parts of India's agriculture or food value chain to effectively implement necessary sustainable solutions that have been detailed in the project document
- Support development of action plans and policy briefs for the growth of sustainable food systemsin the country
- Undertake complex contextual analysis and lead meetings covering the entire food value chain
- agriculture, logistics, corporate, etc.
- Lead the necessary engagement with relevant stakeholders in the government and private sector to influence policy making and transformation as per the lessons learnt from the project
- Mentor and develop a team at NPMU/SPMU for continued progress to bring about transformation in the food systems being targeted at scale
- Planning and Budgeting
- In-charge of overall management of the NPMU
- Coordinate the preparation and implementation of the Annual Work Plans and Budget (AWP/B) of the NPMU and provide guidance to the SPMUs for the preparation of the state level AWP/B
- Liaise with State and Central Departments for mobilising co-finance resources and ensuring effective convergence of project activities with the identified co-financing schemes
- Project Implementation
- Ensure strong coordination/ learning and sharing among the project states
- Report to the NPSC, and the Joint Secretary, Crops division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Ensure time bound implementation of project activities
- Ensure strong technical quality assurance of project’s reports outputs and outcomes based on global, national and state-level best practices
- Coordinate with the FAO Country Office, FAO Lead Technical Officer (LTO), other National Experts
- Monitoring, Review and Studies
- Report to the NPSC, and the Joint Secretary, Crops division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- Adhere to all reporting requirements of the MoAFW, GEF, and FAO
- Implement project developed monitoring and evaluation system to monit

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